Chapter 148. Turned tables

POV: Solomon

I woke up with my head ringing nonstop like a bell, I tried to get out of my bed trying to remember what kind of experiments I did last time for me to get this bad.

But something was wrong, as I couldn't move my arms at my command, instead, I could feel cold iron keeping me in one place.

Suddenly a wave of memories washed over me, how I was with my favorite subject, talking about a way to the Nether and he showed me one of the most amazing items that I ever seen.

Every pixel was enchanted with high language that made my monocle look like a toy in comparison.

But just as I was about to take it with me, it exploded killing me on the spot.

Then one of the totems was used and I was back with the living.

But before I could be angry about what just happened, I was kicked down and placed in a box with running water so I would drown.

After some struggling, I managed to get out, only to face the two most dangerous prisoner's I had, the sleep potion was slowly taking its effects on me even with the buff from the totem, so I drank some milk to wash it off and surrendered, only for everything to go black from there.

If I were to guess I was knocked out by the monsters since she has those kinds of tendencies.

I looked around the room I was in.

It was tall in a round shape beautifully designed with dark colored blocks that made your skin crawl but still appreciate the beauty of it.

As I looked closer I saw four hallways that were connected to this room, unfortunately from my position, I couldn't see what was beyond them.

I tried to get up, but it was hard to move with chains on my legs, so for a few minutes I was struggling to get up.

"So your finally awake! That's a shame, I wanted to use the water bucket."

I turned my head towards the voice to see my ex-prisoner now my jailer who had a smirk on his face at my predicament.

"I feel like I have a bell ringing into my head."

"Yeah, don't try to make Violet mad again, I bearly stopped her from killing you. Now, I've left everything from your lab in a few chests in the Nether, let's hope the System won't be able to steal those books from there as well."

Looks like he robbed my lab as well, I wonder how much he managed to take and what he did with the rest.

But then I listened closely to what he said, and my eyes opened wide.

What do you mean 'I hope the System won't steal those books as well'?

While the System has done so in the past, that doesn't mean it can do the same today since it used a lot of its power to do so.

To get the System's attention you truly need to do something spectacular, and for him to act on it it must be something dangerous for itself.

We got the System's attention from time to time, but it wasn't something worth for it to act on.

But we still have our rituals to hide our chests from its eyes.

"First thing first, I want you to give me everything in your inventory, and don't hide anything since I have your monocle."

To prove that, he took off his helmet and placed the monocle on his right eye looking intensely at me.

"What do you plan on doing with me?"

I said that as I placed all the items beside me with great effort since I couldn't move from the chains.

Every item that I placed down, brought grief, especially my equipment and Undying Totem.

But by the end of it all, I had my inventory emptied for the first time in my life since I was born, it was an unpleasant situation, to say the least.

"Perfect, now I want you to wear those boots all the time."

After he took all of my items, he handed me a pair of diamond boots.

For others this would be a great gift, as for me, it would be my shackles.

The boots were enchanted with Curse of Binding, Locator, and Fire Resistance 1.

Two of those would be a curse that would always follow me, while the last one just confused me.

"With this, no matter where you go I'll always know your location. You're lucky that this enchantment caught my eyes and wasn't stolen by the System."

I started to get irritated with the unanswered question and the fact that I was basically naked, so I spoke back.

"How is that lucky for me?"

"Without it, you would have to live in shackles for the rest of your life in your new home."

At least I won't be tied down like I did to him, I don't want to imagine how uncomfortable it was for him to stay like that for days.

With a final sigh, I put the boots on, and suddenly I felt something connected to my soul which made me freeze in place for a full minute before I could move again.

"I've done what you asked, now where is my new prison cell?"

And how come I wasn't in it already?

"Well, good news and bad news mister Mad Scientist. You'll have the honor of your wish being fulfilled, but you'll also work to the bone for me."

That caught my attention as I listened to him.

"First I'm going to cover your eyes."

He took out a pillow cover and put it on top of my head, making me unable to see where I was going.

Then the chains on my legs were gone, and I was guided by him with a hand on my shoulder.

We walked for a while when suddenly the temperature of the room suddenly rose making my breath more painful, but my feet were feeling normal because of the boots.

We walked some more and I heard blocks being broken at a rapid pace, and then placed back as we passed them.

Then, we were out in the open once again, where we walked with sharp turns until I couldn't tell where was our original location, and only then the pillow case was taken and I could see.

I looked with shock at what I saw in front of me, red blocks all around me, huge lava lakes that had animals bathing In them.

"Welcome, to the Nether!"

Indeed this is truly my wish being fulfilled, and I didn't know if I should be happy or angry about the situation I was in.

"Why did you bring me here?"

"To bring you to your new prison."

With that we traveled a whole day in the Nether, there I saw the Hoglings, the Pigmens, Striders, and Endermans surprisingly.

I also saw the unique biome of this world and Trader was willing to share with me whatever knowledge he had, but what truly caught my attention was the soulsand valley.

I couldn't believe my eyes what I was seeing, so much soulsand in one place and filled with so much Soul energy. This place was the best treasure that I could ask for since just with a potion of what was here I could make great rituals and an unknown amount of Undying Totems.

Trader seemed to worry about my excitement until I vaguely told him what this treasure meant in hopes of bringing a few blocks.

"Those blocks? I guess it makes sense since they are rumored to trap souls, but don't worry, they are not that rare so we don't have to stop for this one particularly. "

I couldn't believe my ears, maybe me being caught wasn't so bad after all, I can't wait to start experimenting soon.

In the end, we arrived at the tribe under his 'protection' where everyone seemed respectful towards the man, and then we arrived at a huge tree with a blue door on it.

We stopped and Trader knocked on it.

"Come in!"

POV: Violet the Enderwoman

I was angry.

I was angry at the man who captured us, I was angry at my human for not killing him and I was angry at myself for being caught in the first place.

I was so used to sneaking in buildings without consequences that I didn't expect an ambush at the outpost.

The fact that my human had to save me as well made my shame only bigger, but I was thankful that he thought of saving me instead of running off by himself.

I know he's not that kind of person, but I also know that he's willing to do anything for his friends, and I didn't know if I was part of that group.

We were now in the Nether at his tribe once again, where the man that I wanted to kill so badly was being interrogated by the man with blue eyes who seemed to see the truth.

After hours of getting everything useful out of him, they decided to hold him captive and do some research for my human, something related to dimensional travel.

Maybe if I brought my human to meet with my father, he could help out with his odd request, he was the one to create the portal to the Void dimension after all.

Unfortunately, my trip to this dimension was one way, and I don't know if my human would survive the ruler's wrath, even when she's heavily injured from the great war.

So I could only throw that idea out of my mind and started to think of other ways I could pay him back for saving my life, when suddenly I heard a voice.

"Violet I know you're here, can you do something for me?"

I looked down towards the voice, and saw my human who looked directly at me like I was visible.

He alway had weird ways of seeing through my invisibility, at first was with a ringing bell and now it's because of his wierd monocle.

How did it even work, and how could I hide from it as well?

I didn't make myself visible, but I tapped his shoulder to let him know that I'm listening.

"Can you please bring me the chests I put in the portal room?"

As always, he asks for me to bring him more chests!

At first it was fun to steal so much, then it got annoying after three days of constant teleporting, and now I just accepted this as being part of myself interacting, and observing him closer.

At least his requests are simple to fulfil, and if I can't do something big for him, I'll do small requests until I feel the debt paid off.

A few hours later I was back with one of the chest he had in his portal room, but right as I was about to leave it in the big tree, I stopped and looked at my human who had a menacingly dark armor on him.

I could feel great power from it, and my pearl started to beat heavily as I felt what was in front of me, to be so wrong but so right in the same time.

I opened my third eye and didn't even see my human in front of me, it was like he wasn't even there.

If I couldn't see him, maybe the System won't be able to see him as well, which would bring a layer of protection over him, especially after he caught the System's eyes a few weeks ago.

I stared at him for a while longer, before putting the chest down and teleported away to get the others.

My pearl started to beat wildly as I felt something big coming soon, somthing that would take the world by storm.